Buddy tracking - efficient proximity detection among mobile friends

Pervasive and Mobile Computing

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 489-511

  Amir, Arnon ^a   Efrat, Alon ^b   Myllymaki, Jussi ^a   Palaniappan, Lingeshwaran ^b   Wampler, Kevin ^b  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Gould Simpson Building   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic nearest neighbors; Global positioning systems; Location based services; Social networks; Strips algorithm

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MESSAGE PASSING; MOBILE PHONES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; SERVERS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

DYNAMIC NEAREST NEIGHBORS; LOCATION BASED SERVICES; SOCIAL NETWORKS; STRIPS ALGORITHMS;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 34548589075     PISSN: 15741192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmcj.2006.12.002     Document Type: Article

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